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Point Of View In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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“You never really know a person until you see things from their point of view.” I think is very true and a good motive to apply to our lives. We make so many prejudgments in our lives about other people and what they say and do. Sometimes we really have to understand what they are feeling and they way they look at certain situations and just the world in general. We also make fun of people’s opinions a lot too because we disagree and do not see their process of thinking. I think this is a good lesson in the book for Scout and Jem. They never understood Boo Radley and why he stayed inside and kept away from people until they really lost interest in him. I think all the adults except for Miss Stephanie and a few others understood this. They knew

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